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Meie 24.01.2025 nr 1-12/797
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Istanbuli konventsiooni küsimustikule vastamine
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Teadusministeeriumi abi Euroopa Nõukogu naistevastase vägivalla ja perevägivalla ennetamise ja
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Group of Experts on Action against Violence
against Women and Domestic Violence
(GREVIO)
Questionnaire for the evaluation of the
implementation of the Council of Europe Convention
on Preventing and Combating Violence against
Women and Domestic Violence by the Parties
1st thematic evaluation round: Building trust by
delivering support, protection and justice
Adopted by GREVIO on 13 October 2022
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Table of contents
Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 3
Part I: Changes in comprehensive and co-ordinated policies, funding and data
collection in the area of violence against women and domestic violence ....................... 4
Article 7: Comprehensive and co-ordinated policies ........................................................... 4
Article 8: Funding ............................................................................................................... 4
Article 11: Data collection and research ............................................................................. 4
Part II: Information on the implementation of selected provisions in priority areas in
the field of prevention, protection and prosecution .......................................................... 6
Article 12: General obligations ........................................................................................... 6
Article 14: Education .......................................................................................................... 6
Article 15: Training of professionals.................................................................................... 6
Article 16: Preventive intervention and treatment programmes ........................................... 6
Article 18: General obligations ........................................................................................... 7
Article 20: General support services ................................................................................... 7
Article 22: Specialist support services ................................................................................ 8
Article 25: Support to victims of sexual violence ................................................................. 9
Article 31: Custody, visitation rights and safety................................................................... 9
Article 48: Prohibition of mandatory alternative dispute resolution processes or sentencing
........................................................................................................................................ 10
Articles 49 and 50: General obligations and immediate response, prevention and
protection ......................................................................................................................... 11
Article 51: Risk assessment and risk management .......................................................... 12
Article 52: Emergency barring orders ............................................................................... 12
Article 53: Restraining or protection orders....................................................................... 13
Article 56: Measures of protection .................................................................................... 13
Part III: Emerging trends on violence against women and domestic violence .............. 14
Part IV: Administrative data and statistics ...................................................................... 15
APPENDIX .......................................................................................................................... 16
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Introduction
In accordance with Article 66, paragraph 1, the Group of Experts on Action against Violence
against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO) shall monitor the implementation of the
Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and
Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention). Following its baseline evaluation procedure which
provided an overview of the implementation of the full spectrum of provisions of the convention
by each state party, Article 68, paragraph 3, of the convention and Rule 30 of the Rules of
Procedure of GREVIO (the Rules of Procedure) mandate GREVIO to carry out subsequent
evaluation procedures divided into rounds. At the beginning of each round, GREVIO shall
select the specific provisions on which the evaluation procedure shall be based and shall send
out a questionnaire (Rule 31 of the Rules of Procedure).
For its 1st thematic evaluation round, GREVIO adopted this questionnaire to be sent to all
states parties which have undergone the baseline evaluation procedure, according to an order
approved by GREVIO. States parties are requested to transmit to GREVIO a reply to this
questionnaire within five months from the date it was sent.
GREVIO decided to focus its 1st thematic evaluation round on the theme of building trust by
delivering support, protection and justice. To address this overarching theme, the present
questionnaire aims, in its first section, to identify developments in key areas such as
comprehensive and co-ordinated policies, funding and data collection that have ensued
following the completion of the baseline evaluation procedure. In its second section, it sets to
obtain more in-depth information on the implementation of selected provisions in the area of
prevention, protection and prosecution, in respect of which baseline evaluation procedures
and the Conclusions on the Recommendations of the Committee of the Parties to the Istanbul
Convention have revealed significant challenges and the need for further sustained
implementation. In its third section, it brings its attention to emerging trends in the area of
violence against women and domestic violence. Its fourth and last section requests annual
statistics for two complete calendar years prior to receiving this questionnaire on specific
administrative and judicial data.
The reply to the questionnaire should be submitted in one of the official languages of the
Council of Europe (English and French) and should contain all the relevant information on the
implementation of the Istanbul Convention since GREVIO’s first baseline evaluation report,
including copies or extracts of relevant legislation, regulations, case law and strategic
documents or action plans referred to (Rule 33 of the Rules of Procedure).
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Part I: Changes in comprehensive and co-ordinated policies, funding
and data collection in the area of violence against women and
domestic violence
Article 7: Comprehensive and co-ordinated policies
1. Please provide information on any new policy development since the adoption of
GREVIO’s baseline evaluation report on your country to ensure comprehensive policies
covering the areas of prevention, protection, and prosecution in relation to stalking, sexual
harassment and domestic violence, including their digital dimension, rape and sexual violence,
female genital mutilation, forced marriage, forced abortion and forced sterilisation, thereby
demonstrating further implementation of the convention. Please specify the measures taken
particularly in relation to those forms of violence against women that have not been addressed
in past policies, programmes and services encompassing the four pillars of the
Istanbul Convention.
2. Where relevant, please provide information on any measures taken to ensure the
alignment of any definitions of domestic violence and of violence against women in national
legislation or policy documents with those set out under Article 3 of the Istanbul Convention
and provide the relevant applicable provisions in English or French.
3. Please provide information on how your authorities ensure that policies on violence
against women and domestic violence put women’s rights and their empowerment at the
centre and on any measure taken to enhance the intersectionality of such policies, in line with
Articles 4 paragraph 3 of the convention. 1
Article 8: Funding
4. Please provide information on any new development since the adoption of GREVIO’s
baseline evaluation report on your country concerning the allocation of appropriate and
sustainable financial and human resources for the implementation of integrated policies,
measures and programmes to prevent and combat all forms of violence covered by the
Istanbul Convention.
5. Please provide information on any development concerning the provision of
appropriate and sustainable financial and human resources for women’s rights organisations
that provide specialist support services to victims, including those supporting migrant women
and girls.
Article 11: Data collection and research
6. Please provide information on any new development since the adoption of GREVIO’s
baseline evaluation report on your country on the introduction of data collection categories
such as type of violence, sex and age of the victim and the perpetrator, the relationship
between the two and where it took place, for administrative data of relevance to the field of
1 The concept of intersectionality refers to the fact that “individuals (and groups) are affected by multiple inequalities
based on various grounds of distinction rather than by discrimination based on one ground at a time. Therefore,
discrimination, inequality and gender-based violence cannot be examined in relation to only one category of
difference – for instance, gender – while precluding others – such as race, class, age, disability, sexual orientation
or gender identity – because social categories intersect and interlock in multiple systems of discrimination that
simultaneously affect an individual’s life.” See in this respect the study Ensuring the Non-discriminatory
Implementation of Measures against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence: Article 4, paragraph 3, of
the Istanbul Convention, A collection of papers on the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating
Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, p.12-13.
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violence against women and domestic violence emanating from law enforcement agencies,
the justice sector, social services and the public health care sector.
7. Where relevant, please provide information on any new development since the
adoption of GREVIO’s baseline evaluation report on your country to enable disaggregated
data collection:
a. on the number of emergency barring and protection orders and the number of
breaches and the resulting sanctions;
b. on the number of times custody decisions have resulted in the restriction and
withdrawal of parental rights because of violence perpetrated by one parent against
the other.
8. Please provide information on measures taken to allow cases of violence against
women and domestic violence to be tracked from reporting to conviction, at all stages of the
law-enforcement and judicial proceedings.
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Part II: Information on the implementation of selected provisions in
priority areas in the field of prevention, protection and prosecution
Article 12: General obligations
9. Please provide information on any primary prevention measures aiming to change
mentalities and attitudes in relation to violence against women and to reduce women’s
exposure to gender-based violence by:
a. addressing harmful gender stereotypes and prejudices, customs and traditions
based on the idea of the inferiority of women;
b. addressing the heightened exposure to gender-based violence by women and girls
at risk of intersectional discrimination;
c. encouraging all members of society, including men and boys, to contribute actively
to preventing all forms of violence against women covered by the scope of the
Istanbul Convention, and promoting the empowerment of women and girls in all
areas of life, notably their participation in politics at all levels and in the labour
market.
Article 14: Education
10. Please provide a few examples of promising teaching or prevention programmes,
materials, or initiatives for use in formal education (from pre-school to higher education) that:
a. educate children and youth about equality between women and men, the right to
personal integrity, mutual respect and non-violent conflict resolution in
interpersonal relationships, including the notion of freely given consent;
b. address some or all the forms of gender-based violence against women and girls
covered by the Istanbul Convention;
c. promote the inclusion of digital literacy and online safety in formal curricula as
foreseen under GREVIO General Recommendation No. 1 on the digital dimension
of violence against women;
d. ensure that teaching material used in school does not convey negative gender
stereotypes of women and men of all ages;
e. offer tailored interventions aimed at preventing gender-based violence and
empowering all girls, including those at risk of intersectional discrimination.
Article 15: Training of professionals
11. Please complete tables I and II included in the Appendix in order to provide a
comprehensive overview of the professional groups that receive initial and in-service training
on the different forms of violence against women and domestic violence. Please specify the
frequency and scope of the training and whether it is compulsory.
12. Please specify if the expertise of women’s rights organisations or specialist support
services is integrated in the design and/or implementation of the training.
Article 16: Preventive intervention and treatment programmes
13. Please provide information on measures taken to increase the number of available
preventive intervention and treatment programmes for perpetrators of domestic and sexual
violence both for voluntary and mandatory attendance.
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14. Please provide information on measures taken to:
a. increase the number of men and boys attending perpetrator programmes for
domestic and sexual violence;
b. ensure that the perpetrator programmes apply standards of best practice;
c. ensure the safety of victims and co-operation with specialist support services
for victims;
d. ensure that the outcomes of the programmes are monitored and evaluated.
Article 18: General obligations
15. Please provide information on any multi-agency co-operation mechanisms, structures
or measures in place designed to protect and support victims of any of the forms of
gender-based violence against women covered by the Istanbul Convention
(e.g., interdisciplinary working groups, case-management systems, cross-sectoral protocols/
guidelines…). Please describe:
a. the state agencies involved in their functioning (law-enforcement agencies,
judiciary, public prosecutor, local authorities, healthcare services, social services,
educational institutions etc.);
b. whether they involve specialist support services provided by civil society
organisations, especially women’s rights organisations;
c. how they adopt a gender-sensitive approach to violence against women, including
the prioritisation of the safety of women and girl victims, their empowerment and a
victim-centred approach;
d. the financial and human resources dedicated to their implementation; and
e. any available information on the evaluation of their outcome or impact.
16. Please detail whether any such co-operation mechanisms or structures set up for the
delivery of support services for a specific form of violence covered by the Istanbul Convention
is based on a legal or policy document advocating for or requiring such approaches.
17. Please explain whether all or some of the services of protection and support offered
for victims of the different forms of violence against women are provided on the basis of a one-
stop-shop approach.
Article 20: General support services
18. Please provide information on programmes and measures aimed at ensuring, through
general services, the recovery of victims of violence, including in the health and social areas,
financial assistance, education, training and assistance in finding employment and affordable
and permanent housing.
Questions specific to the public health sector:
19. Have specific measures been taken to ensure that public health services (hospitals,
health centres, other) respond to the safety and medical needs of women and girls victims of
all forms of violence covered by the Istanbul Convention on the basis of national/regional
standardised protocols?
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20. Do such protocols detail the procedure to:
a. identify victims through screening;
b. provide treatment for all the medical needs of victims in a supportive manner;
c. collect forensic evidence and documentation;
d. ensure that a clear message of support is conveyed to the victim;
e. refer to the appropriate specialist support services that form part of a multi-
agency co-operation structure; and
f. identify children who may have been exposed to domestic violence or other
forms of gender-based violence against women and girls and require further
support.
21. Please provide information on the procedures in place for the documentation and
collection by actors of the public health sector of forensic evidence in relation to victims of
domestic violence, victims of sexual violence, including rape, and victims of female genital
mutilation.
22. Are all women victims of violence, irrespective of any of the grounds listed in Article 4
paragraph 3 of the Istanbul Convention, in particular asylum-seeking women, refugee women,
migrant women, women from national or ethnic minorities, women with irregular residence
status, women with disabilities and LBTI women, able to benefit on an equal footing from
existing healthcare services? Please describe any measure taken to reduce legal or practical
barriers to their accessing regular healthcare services.
23. Please provide information on the measures in place to facilitate the identification and
care of victims of violence against women in institutions for persons with disabilities and for
the elderly as well as for those in closed reception facilities for asylum-seekers and to respond
to their safety and protection needs.
24. Please provide information on how the authorities ensure that different groups of
women and girls, inter alia women with disabilities, Roma women and other women belonging
to national or ethnic minorities, migrant women and intersex persons are fully informed,
understand and freely give their consent to procedures such as sterilisation and abortion.
Article 22: Specialist support services
25. Please describe the type of specialist support services dedicated to women victims of
the forms of gender-based violence covered by the Istanbul Convention (e.g., stalking, sexual
harassment and domestic violence, including their digital dimension, female genital mutilation,
forced marriage, forced sterilisation, forced abortion), including those specialist support
services providing:
a. shelters and/or other forms of safe accommodation
b. medical support
c. short- and long-term psychological counselling
d. trauma care
e. legal counselling
f. outreach services
g. telephone helpline
h. other forms of support (e.g. socio-economic empowerment programmes, online
assistance platforms etc.)
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26. Which type of specialist support service includes child psychologists or other
professionals specialised in supporting children who have been exposed to domestic violence,
including violence perpetrated by one parent against the other?
27. Do specialist support services exist that cater to the specific needs of migrant women
and girls or those belonging to national or ethnic minorities who are victims of violence against
women, including women and girls seeking asylum and those granted refugee or international
protection status?
Article 25: Support to victims of sexual violence
28. Please indicate if any of the below services are available in your territory:
a. sexual violence referral centres (e.g. specialist support services offering immediate
medical care, forensic examination and crisis intervention to victims of
sexual violence);
b. rape crisis centres (e.g. specialist support services offering long-term counselling,
therapy and support to victims of sexual violence regardless of whether the sexual
violence occurred recently or in the past);
c. any other specialised services offering short-term and/or long-term medical,
forensic and psycho-social support to victims of sexual violence.
29. Please provide information on the number of such services and the number of women
and girls supported annually.
30. Please indicate the procedures and time frames for collecting and storing forensic
evidence in cases of sexual violence (e.g. existence of protocols, use of rape kits) in the
relevant services.
31. Please describe any applicable access criteria for use of these services (e.g. affiliation
with a national health insurance, residence status, prior reporting of the case to the police,
other).
Article 31: Custody, visitation rights and safety
32. Please indicate whether under national law incidents of violence covered under the
scope of the convention must be taken into account in the determination of custody and
visitation rights of children. If this is the case, please clarify to what extent these provisions:
a. explicitly list domestic violence as a criterion to be taken into account when deciding
on custody and/or visitation rights in the applicable legislation. If so, please clarify
whether this criterion is/has been applied in practice in the determination of both
custody and visitation rights;
b. acknowledge the harm that witnessing violence by one parent against the other
has on a child;
c. ensure that custody with the non-violent parent is preferred over foster-care;
d. foresee the screening of civil proceedings related to the determination of custody
or visitation rights for a history of domestic violence among the parties;
e. foresee that judges conduct risk assessments or request the disclosure of risk
assessments drawn up by law-enforcement agencies or other competent
stakeholders for victims of domestic violence, with a view to taking them into
account and determining the best interest of the child in the context of custody and
visitation decisions.
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33. Please describe the measures in place to ensure that judges, court‑appointed experts
and other legal professionals:
a. have sufficient knowledge of the law and understanding of the dynamics of intimate
partner violence, including the psychological impact of witnessing violence on the child;
b. duly take into account victims’ grievances in cases of domestic violence and hear
children victims/witnesses, where applicable, in the determination of custody and
visitation rights;
c. are informed of the unfoundedness of notions of “parental alienation”2 or analogous
concepts that are used to overshadow the violence and control exerted by perpetrators
of domestic violence over women and their children.
34. Please provide details on the procedures in place to ensure that the competent court
for family-related issues co-operate/communicate with other relevant bodies/professionals,
including, but not limited to, criminal courts, law‑enforcement agencies, health and education
authorities and specialist women’s support services when taking decisions on custody and
visitation or when offering family law mediation. Please specify whether the law provides a
legal framework for any of the procedures in place.
35. Please provide detailed information on the procedures in place (including, if applicable,
the relevant personnel used, the specific infrastructure available), in the exercise of custody
and visitation rights, to:
a. eliminate the risk for the abused parent to be subjected to further violence;
b. eliminate the risk for the child to witness or experience violence;
c. ensure that the responsible personnel are trained and that the facilities are suited
to enable safe supervised visitation.
36. Please indicate whether national provisions foresee the withdrawal of parental rights
in criminal sentences if the best interest of the child, which may include the safety of the victim,
cannot be guaranteed in any other way.
Article 48: Prohibition of mandatory alternative dispute resolution
processes or sentencing
Criminal law:
37. Please provide information on the measures taken to ensure that mandatory alternative
dispute resolution processes are prohibited in criminal proceedings related to cases involving
the different forms of violence against women covered by the Istanbul Convention.
2 In its baseline evaluation reports GREVIO has consistently referred to the statement of December 2017 by the
European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP), which draws attention to the fact that the concepts of “parental
alienation syndrome” (PAS) and “parental alienation” (PA) are unsuitable for use in any psychotherapeutic practice.
This statement by the EAP, which is made up of 128 psychotherapy organisations from 41 European countries,
acts as a guiding principle for European psychotherapists. Moreover, in February 2020 the World Health
Organisation (WHO) published its new draft International Classification of Diseases, 11th Revision (ICD-11) and
confirmed that it had removed parental alienation from index term in the final ICD-11. See also the Platform of
Independent Expert Mechanisms on Discrimination and Violence against Women (EDVAW Platform) statement of
May 2019 “Intimate partner violence against women is an essential factor in the determination of child custody,
say women’s rights experts”.
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38. Where voluntary alternative dispute resolution processes exist for any criminal
offences within the remit of the Istanbul Convention, such as conciliation or mediation, please
provide information on the safeguards incorporated to ensure the free and informed consent
of the victim to such processes and the measures taken to avoid that direct or indirect pressure
is placed on the victim. Please also state whether the offer of alternative dispute resolution
processes may result in the discontinuation of criminal investigation and prosecution or other
consequences for the victim.
Civil law:
39. Please provide information on the measures taken to ensure that alternative dispute
resolution processes such as mediation or procedures which can be considered tantamount
to the latter are not used in family law proceedings such as divorce proceedings or
proceedings related to custody and visitation of children, where there is a history of violence.
Articles 49 and 50: General obligations and immediate response,
prevention and protection
40. Please describe the human, financial and technical resources provided to law
enforcement agencies to diligently respond to and investigate all cases of violence against
women, including their digital dimension.
41. Which measures have been taken to ensure that the premises of police stations are
accessible and suitable for receiving and interviewing victims of violence while ensuring their
privacy? Is it possible to report cases of violence against women elsewhere than in police
stations, including through digital means?
42. Please explain whether specialist police/prosecution units exist to investigate and
prosecute violence against women and specify:
a. which forms of violence against women they are competent for;
b. whether such units exist in all police/prosecution districts throughout the
country.
43. Please describe any measures taken to ensure swift investigation into and effective
prosecution of cases of violence against women and domestic violence such as prioritisation
through fast-tracking, benchmarking or other initiatives, without compromising the
thoroughness of the investigation.
44. Are any measures taken to encourage women and girls who experience any of the
forms of violence against women covered by the Istanbul Convention to report incidents of
violence to the authorities? Please provide examples of any measures taken to instill
confidence in law-enforcement officials, including those aimed at addressing any language or
procedural difficulties they encounter when lodging complaints, in particular those of migrant
women, asylum-seeking women, women with disabilities, women with addiction issues and
other women and girls at risk of intersectional discrimination.
45. Please indicate whether protocols/standard operating procedures or guidelines for
police officers are in place providing guidance on how to receive reports, interview victims,
investigate and collect evidence in cases of rape and sexual violence, domestic violence,
psychological violence, stalking, sexual harassment (including their online manifestation),
forced marriage, female genital mutilation and forced sterilisation/abortion. Please provide
information on how the authorities ensure the comprehensive collection of evidence beyond
the victim’s testimony.
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46. Please describe the efforts taken to identify and address all factors that contribute to
attrition (the process whereby cases drop out of the criminal justice system) in cases of
violence against women and domestic violence.
47. Please indicate if legislative or other measures have been taken to issue a renewable
residence permit to migrant women who have become a victim of any of the forms of violence
covered by the Istanbul Convention if the competent authority considers that their stay is
necessary for the purpose of their co-operation in investigation or criminal proceedings.3
Article 51: Risk assessment and risk management
48. Please describe any standardised and mandatory risk assessment tools in use by all
relevant authorities in all regions for forms of violence against women such as stalking,
violence committed in the name of so-called honour and domestic violence and to what extent
these tools are being used in practice to assess the lethality risk, the seriousness of the
situation and the risk of repeated violence with a view to preventing further violence. Please
specify whether the following elements are considered as red flags when carrying out the risk
assessment:
a. the possession of or access to firearms by the perpetrator;
b. the filing for separation/divorce by the victim or the break-up of the relationship;
c. pregnancy;
d. previous acts of violence;
e. the prior issue of a restrictive measure;
f. threats made by the perpetrator to take away common children;
g. acts of sexual violence;
h. threats to kill the victim and her children;
i. threat of suicide;
j. coercive and controlling behaviour.
49. Please specify how effective co-operation is ensured between the different statutory
authorities and specialist women’s support services in making risk assessments and whether
the risks identified are managed by law enforcement agencies on the basis of individual safety
plans that include also the safety of the victim’s children.
50. Please describe the efforts made to analyse retrospectively all cases of gender-based
killings of women, in the context of domestic violence and other forms of violence against
women to identify the existence of possible systemic gaps in the institutional response of the
authorities with the aim of preventing such acts in the future.
Article 52: Emergency barring orders
51. Have any legislative or other measures been taken to introduce and/or amend the legal
framework governing emergency barring orders in order to align it with the requirements of
Article 52? If yes, please specify whether:
a. emergency barring orders may remain in place until a victim can obtain a court-
ordered protection order in order to ensure that gaps in the protection do not arise;
b. support and advice are made available to women victims of domestic violence in a
pro-active manner by the authority competent to issue an emergency barring order;
3
This question refers to the obligation contained in Article 59, paragraph 3. State parties that have entered a
reservation in respect of Article 59 may reply to this question but are not required to do so.
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c. children are specifically included in contact bans issued under the emergency
barring order;
d. any exceptions to contact bans are made and in which circumstances.
52. Please provide information on the measures taken to enforce emergency barring
orders and on responses to any violations of such orders.
Article 53: Restraining or protection orders
53. Have any legislative or other measures been taken to introduce and/or amend the legal
framework governing restraining and protection orders in order to align it with the requirements
of Article 53? If yes, please specify whether:
a. restraining or protection orders are available – in the context of criminal
proceedings and/or upon application from civil courts - to women victims of all
forms of violence covered by the Istanbul Convention, including domestic violence,
stalking, sexual harassment, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, violence
related to so-called honour as well as digital manifestations of violence against
women and girls;
b. children are specifically included in protection orders;
c. any exceptions to contact bans are made and, if so, in which circumstances these
may be made.
54. Please provide information on the measures taken to enforce protection orders and on
responses to any violations of such orders.
Article 56: Measures of protection
55. Please provide information on the measures taken to ensure the following:
a. that the relevant agency informs the victim when the perpetrator escapes or is
released temporarily, at least when they or their family might be in danger
(paragraph 1 b);
b. the protection of the privacy and the image of the victim (paragraph 1 f);
c. the possibility for victims to testify in the courtroom without being present or at least
without the presence of the alleged perpetrator, notably through the use of
appropriate communication technologies, where available (paragraph 1 i);
d. the provision of appropriate support services for victims so that their rights and
interests are duly presented and taken into account (paragraph 1 e).
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Part III: Emerging trends on violence against women and domestic
violence
56. Please provide information on new developments since the adoption of GREVIO’s
baseline evaluation report on your country concerning:
a. emerging trends in violence against women and domestic violence, including its
digital manifestations (types of perpetration, groups of victims, forms of violence);
b. emerging trends in domestic case law related to violence against women;
c. emerging trends in the allocation of funding and budgeting by your state authorities;
d. innovative approaches to primary prevention, for example new target audiences
and means of communication, public/private partnerships etc.
e. emerging trends related to access to asylum and international protection for
women victims of violence against women.
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Part IV: Administrative data and statistics
57. Please provide annual statistics for two complete calendar years prior to receiving this
questionnaire on administrative and judicial data on:
a. the number of reports, investigations opened, prosecutions, final convictions
secured and sanctions imposed in respect of all forms of violence against women
and domestic violence covered by the Istanbul Convention;
b. the number of emergency barring orders issued by the competent authorities, the
number of breaches of such orders, and the number of sanctions imposed as a
result of these breaches;
c. the number of protection orders issued, the number of breaches of such orders and
the number of sanctions imposed as a result of such breaches;
d. data on the number of decisions issued by family courts on
custody/visitation/residence of children that have expressly taken into account
incidents of domestic violence.
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APPENDIX
Table 1: Initial training (education or professional training)
Please fill in the table and list the professionals (in the area of healthcare, law enforcement,
criminal justice, social welfare, education, asylum and migration, media/journalism and
support services) which have received initial training on violence against women. Please place
each category of professional in a separate line.
Professionals Do they benefit Is this Are training Who funds Please describe the
from initial training efforts the content and the
training on mandatory? supported training? duration of the
violence against by training
women and guidelines
domestic and
violence? protocols?
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Table 2: In-service training
Please fill in the table and list the professionals (in the area of healthcare, law enforcement,
criminal justice, social welfare, education, asylum and migration, media/journalism and
support services) which receive in-service training on violence against women. Please place
each category of professional in a separate line.
Professionals Number of Is this training Frequency Training efforts Please describe the
professionals mandatory? supported by content and
trained guidelines and duration of the
protocols training